1st Edition

The Sociological Revolution From the Enlightenment to the Global Age

By Richard Kilminster Copyright 1999
    238 Pages
    by Routledge

    238 Pages
    by Routledge

    By controversially turning away from the current debates which surround social theory, this book provides an historical analysis of the profound burden of sociology and its implications today.

    Part 1 From Philosophy to the Sociology of Knowledge; Chapter 1 Sociologists and Philosophy; Chapter 2 The Hegelian Apogee; Chapter 3 Marx's Theory of Knowledge as a Part ial Breakthrough; Part 2 Figurational Explorations; Chapter 4 The Limits of Transcendental Sociology; Chapter 5 The Structure of Structuralism; Chapter 6 Globalization as an Emergent Concept; Chapter 7 Structuration theory as a World-View; Chapter 8 Sociology Since 1945; Chapter 9 Concluding Remarks;

    Biography

    Richard Kilminster is lecturer in sociology at the University of Leeds.